The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-06-16

exists IN FLORIDA except at Key West
which is on an isolated island nearly LOO
miles from the nearest point on the main
land.
On Sunday last, force of police was
sent from Bodyke to Treakle to disperse
+ Davitt's meeting, but did not get there
till Davitt's had finished and left the
place.
The whole power of the United States
can't fire Dogberry Oliver from justice o1
the peace in Washington. The district
stuthorities are trying writ Of quo war:
ranto.
A contract for part of the work of drain.
ing the Valley of Mexico has been award.
ed to syndicate of Cleveland, Ohio, cap.
italists known as the Bucyras Construc-
tion company.
The NewYork produce exchange reports
the visible supply of grain on June as
follows: Wheat, 42,452,O 900 bushels; corr
14,7O9,000; oats, 3,453,000; rye, 259,000
barley, $4,000.
Lawrence Donovan, of Brooklyn bridge
jumping fame, was arrested on Westmin.
lister bridge, London, last week, while at
tempting to jump therefrom into the
Thames in honor of the queens birthday.
Mrs. Langtry is going to reside in San
Francisco after the completion of her pro-
fessional arrangements there. The gos-
sips say a desire to take advantage of cer-
tain California laws on divorce is the
principal cause.
President Cleveland and party on their
way home from the Adirondacks stopped
at Albany and breakfasted with Gov
ernor Hill. The president then went on
to Washington while Mrs. Cleveland went
to Oswego to visit a friend.
Gen. Sherman has written to grand
army officials in St. Louis ridiculing the
idea that the Iowans would do anything
insulting or disrepectful to President
Cleveland in case he visits st. Louis dur
ing the prospective G. A. R. encampment.
OF ninety assisted emigrants, who ar
rived in New York from Ireland last
week, all but twenty-three have been Or
dered to he taken back by the Inman
Steamship company. It is believed the
steamship company will contest the case
in the q. S. courts.
The total coin and currency in circula-
ton May 81, 1887, was $197, ,256, $50, being
net increase of $5s,5G6,54 over that
in circulation May 81, 1856. The princi-
pal portion of the increase is in paper
currency and in coin of the denomination
of 500 and under.
No information has been received at
the war department IN Washington re-
garding the recent outbreak in Arizona,
beyond the fact that thirty Apaches have
left their reservation and that Captain
Lawton is in pursuit of them with four
troops Of cavalry.
A Memphis newspaper, having sent out
circulars to leading newspapers of the
south asking if they favored Cleveland
after having pocketed the river and har-
Dor bill, received 35 replies, of which q
were in the affirmative, in the negative
and 2 on the fence.
At an Anarchist picnic at Oak Ridge
Park, N. j., last Sunday, at which Herr
Most was present, workman who hap
pened to be going through the park was
attacked and general row precipitated,
during which several shots were fired.
No one was seriously hurt.
At the commencement exercises at West
Point, N. Y, the graduating class num-
bered sixty-four. General Sheridan well
coined them into the ranks of the army.
The colored cadet Alexander, who is the
second of his race to go through the
academy, graduated second.
The Independent is authority for the
statement that Vice-President Oakes is
to be appointed to the presidency of the
Northern Pacific railroad. The feasabil-
ity of running a line of steamers from
Puget Sound to China and Japan is to
be considered by the company.
When Captain Thomas Phelan was
stabbed in O'Donovan Rossa's Office, New
York, two yea rs ago, he had an accident
policy for $1,000 insurance IN the Travel
ers insurance company. The company
refused to pay the money on the
plea that Fhelan had provoked the as
sault. Phelan was last Saturday award
ed Judgment for the full amount.
A Mrs. Brooks who went to Denver
from Michigan last year to take possess
ion of $4,000 worth of property which
had been left her, has ever since been
missing, her husband who went west to
look for her, and several detectives whom
he has employed, finding no trace of her.
Mr.. Brooks has now just received letter
from his wife mailed in Boston but en-
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